We don't need anymore sobbing on these boards about "ruining draft position" or posts about the erroneous belief that some late-season wins are going to dupe Sox management into thinking the team is "close."

As we've learned this week, those things tend to take care of themselves. They are not legitimate concerns for fans to have.

Draft position, because of the pools, finally means something. I don't want to purposefully lose, but I'm not exactly angry that we stopped winning. More money to spend on young talent is a good thing.